Turtles Can Fly ResponseWar is a devastating and miserable time. War stories usually focus on combat and the soldiers experiences. However, during wartime, everybody suffers. Cities are destroyed, homes are ruined, fields are burned and children are left as orphans. Children who grow up during times of war, are robbed of their childhood and forced to mature in order to deal with their misfortunate circumstances. The film Turtles can Fly illustrates how children survived during the 2003 War in Iraq. It shows the loss and the havoc that the war brings to these children's lives. Specifically one girl who turned to suicide after she was raped and had a son that she was really too young to care for.

The film shows us a bleak environment. The children live in small tents that are cramped, the burned hills are naked and scrapes of tanks and cars lie around everywhere. These children had to work for food by clearing mine fields which is a very dangerous and tedious job. Unprotected many of the children have come into close contact with the mines going off resulting in loss of some limbs. Thirteen year old Argin, was raped by men who attacked her village and killed her family. She was left with the horrifying memory of the attack and a blind son who she was forced to take care of. She is only a child however, the attack has forced her to grow up and become responsible for another life. Within North America a child of thirteen is no where near mature enough to take care of themselves never mind a life of another. Her relationship with her son is forced by her brother. The young boy is seen as an obstacle that holds both her and her brother back from leaving and moving on with their lives. Her inner hatred for men, anger about her current situation and the anguish she feels everyday is reveled though her silence and avoidance of human connection beyond her brother and son. Argin’s inability to cope with the loss of her family and her past leads her to the resentment of...

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...Charbel Bassil
Notre Dame University
Principles of Macroeconomics
ECN212
Required Homework Assignment 5
Prepare problems 3, 5 and 7 on pp.521 and the additional problem, Principles of Economics,
Case, Fair and Oster.
Problem 3 p.521
For each of the following statements, decide wether you agree or disagree and explain your
answer :
1. During period of budget surplus (when 𝐺 < 𝑇 ), the government debt grows.
2. A tax cut will increase the equilibrium level of GDP if the budget is in deﬁcit but will
decrease the equilibriumm level of GDP if the budget is in surplus.
3. If the 𝑀 𝑃 𝑆 = 0.90, the tax multiplier is actually larger than the expenditure multiplier.
Problem 5 p.521
Expert economists in the economy of Yuk estimate the following :
Real output/income 1000 billion Yuks
Government purchases 200 billion Yuks
Total net taxes 200 billion Yuks
Investment spending (planned) 100 billion Yuks
Assume that Yukers consume 75 percent of their disposable incomes and save 25 percent.
1. You are asked by the business editor of the 𝑌 𝑢𝑘𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 to predict the events of the
next few months. By using the data given, make a forecast. (Assume that investment is
constant.)
2. If no changes were made, at what level of GDP (𝑌 ) would the economy of Yuk settle ?
3. Some local conservatives blame Yuk’s problems on the size of the government sector.
They suggest cutting government purchases by 25 billion Yuks. What effect would such
cuts have on the...

...Book Project Response Sheet
Lord of the Flies
January 14, 2009
Chapters 1-3
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Summary:
Throughout the first three chapters of Lord of the Flies, the boys gather together, and start to get organized. Ralph and Piggy are the first boys to meet up and by finding a conch shell they are able to use it as a symbol to gather the rest of the boys together. After electing Ralph as the leader, him, Simon, and Jack set off in an attempt to scope out the island and what it has to offer. Jack and his choirboys are elected as the hunters and designated to keep the watch fire on top of the mountain blazing as a symbol. Jack lets a pig escape so he sets off in an attempt to find more food, while Ralph and Simon work on shelters for the group to sleep in. After weeks of living together and competing with each others every move, Jack and Ralph accept that they mutually dislike each other, and although they try to rectify the hostility realize it is only continuing to grow. A “littun” from the first meeting that had spoke of a monster inhabiting the island disappears leaving the whole group a little hesitant and uneasy.
Response:
The first three chapters of Lord of the Flies are filled with confusion and the essence of how slow starting a community is. The reader is led through Ralph’s frustration regarding the boy’s...

...Jaime Rodríguez
English I
11. May. 2012
Parody of Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein is a movie, directed by Mel Brooks, a well known director that focuses mainly on comical movies. In this film, the plot of the original book is changed and the protagonist becomes Fredrick Frankenstein played by Gene Wilder, Victor Frankenstein’s grandson. Furthermore, it has an alternative ending in which Frederick gives part of his brain to the monster so he can communicate his thoughts to everyone, and in this movie, the creator actually cares for the creature. However, Mel Brooks film is a parody, since it has a plot somewhat similar to the book but was designed to be comical and even at points ridicule her work with comical situations or puns and one-liners.
In the beginning of the movie, Mel Brooks insults the intelligence of Frankenstein by making the personality of the protagonist that of a fool. Due to Frederick’s pride, he calls himself “Frankensteen” and everyone thinks he is mentally challenged, not including his assistant, which is not the brightest assistant ever. Needless to say, the film is full of comical puns, but the first and remarkable pun is when Inga, Fredrick’s assistant played by Teri Garr, says to him as a wolf howls in the distance, “That is a werewolf” and Fredrick replies with concern while pointing at towards the direction of the howl, “A werewolf?” Then Igor (played by Marty Feldman), Fredrick’s...

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...Arts 10
December 18, 2009
Response to Literature
Every great society has strived and prospered due to the laws and principles the civilization has lived by. But when a society removes these principles that are laid out what could result? In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, as a result of a terrible war a plane crashed landed, killing the pilots and leaving a small group of boys stranded on an island leaving the boys with no ascendancy. The groups of boys do well at the start when they establish an organized method to keep an ongoing signal fire going, problems soon arise as the kids begin to lose the liberation they had once practiced. As we scrutinize the Lord of The Flies and apply Freudians theory we can personify each of the three elements that make up his theory with the three main characters Jack, Ralph and Piggy that can also represent: the Id, the Ego and the Super Ego based on Freud’s Personality theory.
The best well known psychoanalytic theory developed by Sigmund Freud, a Viennese physician, believed that the mind could be separated to three parts the Id, the Ego and the Super Ego. The Id is what we are born with it is the pleasure principle, representing what we desire at the moment in an unconscious state of mind without releasing the reality of the circumstances. In The Lord of the Flies the Id would symbolize Jack as he wants his ambitions met...

...﻿MovieResponse 1 (50 points): This first essay is a response to Food, Inc. and Fed Up!, should be between 2 and 4 pages long, and must be submitted to Moodle. Your responses should answer the questions listed in the rubric, demonstrate media literacy, critique the movies and offer suggestions for how their messages could be improved, and integrate knowledge you gained from class discussion, lectures, or other movies. This essay should also demonstrate that you took notes while we watched the movies in-class and that you participated in the in-class discussions we had about the movies.
1. What are the main points/arguments/theses of each movie?
What are these movies about? What are the major and minor themes of the movies? In other words, why were these movies made?
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2. Are the movies’ main points primarily made using facts/data or personal anecdotes?
Which type of supporting evidence is most appropriate?
Facts/data may be most appropriate for one movie, while personal anecdotes might be most appropriate for the other
Is the main supporting evidence believable in both movies? Is the evidence easy to understand?
Is the supporting evidence used fairly in both movies? Could the evidence have been manipulated in some way, to emphasize one way of interpreting it over another?
Pick a single piece of evidence from each movie, then explain how there might be at least one other way...

...multiple outcomes of the scientific procedure that are positive. The first positive outcome of genetic engineering in the movie was that it allows the parents of children to choose how they want their children to be. When having a child, in the first few months, parents do not know the gender or any of the traits, unless they are genetically tested to determine the phenotype of their offspring. With the genetic engineering the movie, Anton’s parents were allowed to pick out exactly what they wanted their son to look like and also what they wanted his genetics to be. Secondly, the genetic engineering would diminish the chances of offspring being born with any diseases, conditions or disorders. Since scientists could take the genetic fault and fix it before the mother was even impregnated, there wouldn’t be any more children with conditions and disorders that affect them their whole lifetime. In the movie, Vincent was born with a condition that affected his heart and caused him to have a very short life expectancy. On the contrary his brother, Anton, since he was genetically engineered, didn’t have any disorders and was almost in perfect genetic and physical condition. Due to the fact that Vincent had a heart condition and his brother did not, his brother was accepted into Gattaca and Vincent was not (as himself). The last pro of genetic engineering shown in the movie was the fact that if a baby was genetically...

...Joe Parise
Coms 356
2/18/10
Static and Dynamic Composition
In the film TurtlesCanFly we are introduced to a girl named Agrin. She is with a small child around the age of three named Riga. We see throughout the film that Agrin has a strange hatred for the child and wants to rid him from her life. As a viewer we are left to assume that the three-year –old Riga is Agrin’s son, a product of rape when her village was invaded.
Ghobadi, the film’s director, uses one scene that really stood out. Agrin takes Riga and carries him, in what we can only assume from the dim lighting to be early morning, through a foggy field. She enters from the right side of the frame with Riga on her back and continues walking off deeper into the distance towards the left side of the screen. This static composition can be viewed in its traditional sense of movement within the frame depicting danger and oncoming tension. In this particular shot the girl and her child are the only thing in the frame that draws any attention. The background is blocked by the dense fog and the only other object mise-en-scene is a large rock on the left side. This may have been placed there to show that she was walking towards the desert away from the camp.
Throughout the video the children are forced to grow up and act like adults way beyond their maturity. The theme of the film seems to be that although children can act...